Firefox does not give you PDFs with working links

  • Correct me if I am wrong here, but with Firefox you cannot produce a PDF with working links from a html page. I tested this with “print to PDF” and with PDFxChange for printing to PDF.
    This is a firefox problem.

    Yet you can produce a PDF with links in Chrome and Edge by using the built-in “Safe to PDF” function.

    Maybe a hint on the Print My Blog generated Page when openend with Firefox would be helpful. Something like this:

    You get best results by opening this page in Chrome or Edge and printing to PDF by using the built-in “Safe to PDF” function.

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  • Plugin Author Michael Nelson

    (@mnelson4)

    Hi again @cr-art, that’s right: Firefox doesn’t create PDFs with hyperlinks. And actually, I think mobile Safari doesn’t have working hyperlinks in it either. (This is one of the reasons why I’m working on the pro version: hand off actual PDF-generation to a paid service that specializes in it… browsers often do a pretty good job, but they’re inconsistent and not perfect.)

    I’m thinking about adding this text to the bottom of the print-window

    Note: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are recommended for producing PDFs.

    Like in this screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/8nZkAkA.png

    What do you think?

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